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Shun 22-Slot Bamboo Knife Storage Block

Brand: Alton Brown
Category: Kitchen

List Price: $113.00
Buy New: $89.95
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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 12 reviews
Sales Rank: 82252

Color: Brown
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 8.2
Dimensions (in): 0 x 0 x 0

MPN: BAMBOO22BO
Model: BAMBOO22BO
EAN: 4901601424744

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Features:
  • Block has 22 knife slots plus slots for shears and a sharpening steel
  • Natural beautiful, laminated bamboo with a clear finish
  • Includes a slot for a cleaver and slots for steak knives
  • Safely and securely houses the cutlery
  • Nonskid rubber feet

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Product Description
For use with your Shun cutlery, this naturally beautiful Bamboo block provides slots for your essentials, including a honing steel, wide knife or cleaver and shears. In addition, it can house a set of 6 Steak Knives. It's the ideal way to keep cutlery at hand while ensuring precision blades remain sharp and safely stored when not in use. Bamboo is also highly durable and easily wipes clean with a damp cloth.


Customer Reviews:
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5 out of 5 stars Great knife block   July 28, 2010
Susan07
This is a wonderful product! I have accumulated many knives of various sizes and shapes and this has slots for everything. Some of my knives are too wide for other blocks, and this has several very wide and deep slots. None of my knives extend out the bottom (as they do in other blocks) and none get hung up in narrow slots. There is even a place for my cleaver. I looked for quite a while to find a block that would fit everything and I am very pleased with this one. Good quality, nicely finished, good color, good angle to pull from. Highly recommended.


5 out of 5 stars Very nice knife block   March 2, 2010
E. Loehr
I bought this to go with my Forschner/Victorinox knives. It arrived without damage and looks and functions great.


1 out of 5 stars Arrived damaged   February 20, 2010
sickoflibs (Colorado)
Like a previous review, mine arrived with crack all the way down back side of block. Was not packaged very well in the box so I'm not sure if it is a quality control problem or enroute injury.


3 out of 5 stars Not too impressed   January 8, 2010
J. Pobst (St. Louis, MO)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Issues with the blocks I received:

The first one of these I ordered arrived with a crack above the kitchen shears slot between 2 of the bamboo-board-columns (for lack of better words) all the way down the back. I think the crack was large enough that you could slide a sheet of paper through it, but I didn't even take the block out of the plastic wrap since I intended to ship it back.

The second block also had a crack on the back above the kitchen shears slot, but this crack was only a couple inches at the bottom between two of the "bamboo-board-columns" and then another inch one column over above that. These cracks also weren't as wide as the crack on the first one. In addition to the cracks, this one also had a dent a few mm in diameter in the top left corner (by the honing rod slot). These are slight nuisances but are not so bothersome as the large crack in the first one. As such I plan to keep this one.

Slot widths:
(I won't make any garauntees on my accuracy)

5 slots are 2 1/8 in. wide
3 slots are 1 5/8 in. wide
5 slots are 1 3/16 in. wide
6 slots are 15/16 in. wide
1 slot is 3 15/16 in. wide
and the other 2 slots are the honing rod and kitchen shears slots

Issues with the block in general:

As mentioned by another reviewer, it would be nice if the slots were wider. I have the Ken Onion by Shun 7-Inch Santoku, and it only fits completely into the cleaver slot. This is frustrating because they could have easily made one of the five 2 1/8" slots another 1/8"-1/4" wider, and then it would have fit. If I end up getting a cleaver, I will probably take a power drill to the block so my Santoku fits in one of the other slots. the only other thing is that the honing rod slot is too close to the kitchen shears slot. A have the Shun Sharpening Steel and the Kershaw Taskmaster Shears, and they fight for the same space so that the shears must sit crooked. This isn't a big deal; it just doesn't look so nice. Since Kershaw and Shun are both made by KAI, I thought maybe they should fit better.(UPDATE: The kitchen shears do fit in fine if inserted with the bottle opener side facing right.)


With all that being said, it still basically does what block should do, and I don't expect it to fall apart.



5 out of 5 stars Great Construction, Nice wide slots   October 27, 2009
H. Heinrich
Was hesitant to purchase because of price tag, but after reading L.Arthur's review decided to go for it. Unless you have lots of standard size knives around, this is the knife block to get. We needed space for lots of paring and bread knives, and the bottom vertical slots hold them all! We upgraded from a smaller Henckle block in which we had slot width issues. This fixed all of our knife storage problems. Well worth the price for our purpose.

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